Career Opportunities

Officers of the Lincoln Police Department are afforded with many
opportunities to develop their careers. Along with the City's college
incentive program and the department's in-service training, officers
are able to compete for promotional positions. All promotions are based
upon merit, as determined by a competitive promotional process administered
by the City of Lincoln Human Resources Department.

A number of specialized positions in the department are available to
qualified officers as openings occur. These specialized positions can be
in the following units: Crime Prevention, Criminal Investigations, Education and Personnel, Family Crimes, K-9, Narcotics, Traffic Safety, Technical Investigations and others.

Benefits

Salary:
The current officer pay range is from $46,419/year up to $65,620/year.
In addition, employees are paid at the rate of time and one-half for all
overtime hours. A minimum of two hours of overtime is provided when an
employee is called in off-duty, unless it is a regular day off or a vacation
day, then a minimum of four hours of overtime pay is granted. Standby
pay is also a contract provision.

Educational Pay:
An employee will receive $300 for an Associate Degree and $750 for a
Bachelor Degree annually. An employee may be reimbursed up to $600.00
annually for approved college courses.

Bilingual Pay:
If an officer is able to demonstrate proficiency to interpret conversations in other eligible languages they may receive bilingual pay of $100 per month.

Longevity Pay:
An employee will receive an additional $488 annually beginning
with the eighth year of service. This longevity pay will increase at the completion of 15, 20, 25 and 30 years of service with the top end longevity pay at $3,000 annually.

Body Armor:
Officers are reimbursed up to $800 for the purchase of protective body
armor once every five years. The body armor is the property of
the individual officer after one year of service.

Vacation:
After successful completion of the first six months of employment - at the factored hourly equivalent of forty hours for the second six months of service. After the first year of service, 88 hours per year. After
five years, 128 hours per year. After ten years, 144 hours per year. After 15 years, 168 hours per year. After 20 years, 200 hours per year. After 25 years, 208 hours per year.

Holidays:
Officers may be paid for seven holidays each year or they may elect to
accumulate up to 82 hours in a holiday bank. This time may then be taken
as time off during the year. The city will provide 42 additional non cumulative personal
holiday hours each fiscal year.

Sick Leave:
Officers earn eight hours of sick leave for each full month of service. Sick leave is earned but cannot be taken during the first six months of employment.

Insurance:
The City shall provide each regular employee a $60,000 life insurance
policy.
Optional family coverage is available at a reduced cost. If an officer elects family coverage, he or she may select health
insurance from the city group health plan. In regard to dental insurance, the
City contributes 100% of the single premium. Officers are eligible for insurance benefits 90 days after the date of hire.

These benefits are currently provided and are subject to change due to
collective bargaining sessions between the Lincoln Police Union
and the City of Lincoln.

The City of Lincoln is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer
who is committed to recruit, hire, promote or transfer employees
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, national origin,
age (40-70), marital status, receipt of public assistance, or political
affiliation, except that no person shall be employed who advocates or
belongs to a group which advocates the violent overthrow of our government.